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Show Bird Doomed to Extinction. Among tho birds that are most rapidly approaching extinction Is the kiwi or apteryx of New Zealand. Tho kiwi Is comparable In size to an ordinary ordi-nary chicken, but It has massive legs, set well book, a long slender bill with nostrils nt tho tip of the upper mandible. man-dible. No wings nre visible, but they may bo fejt under tho body feathers which, llko thoso of tho emu, havo a halr-Uke texture. Kiwis associate during the greater part of the year In troops or parties of from six to a dozen, doz-en, pairing up In tho breeding season. They aro found In wocded districts, chiefly on slopes or In gullies clothed with brushwood, ferns and creepers, and nre nocturnal In habit. |